Household war : how Americans lived and fought the Civil War
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Household war : how Americans lived and fought the Civil War
（Uncivil wars）
The University of Georgia Press, c2020
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : the Civil War as a household war / Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites
- The material world of Mary Todd Lincoln : her households in peace and war / Joan E. Cashin
- Householder and general : Lee's war as a household war / Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
- The divided houses of Ulysses S. Grant / Brooks D. Simpson
- The soldier's dream of home / Jonathan W. White
- "Now I can bear my ills patiently" : the expanding realm of Wisconsin households during the Civil War / Julie A. Mujic
- Written on the heart : soldiers' letters, the household supply line, and the relational war / LeeAnn Whites
- Aid and comfort to the enemy : escaped prisoners and the home as site of war / Lorien Foote
- War's domestic corollary : Union occupation households in the Civil War South / Margaret Storey
- Creek and Seminole households on the trail of blood on ice / Andrew K. Frank
- Disordered households : Reconstruction, Klan terror, and the law / Victoria E. Bynum
- Dead husband, dead son : widows, mothers-in-law, and mourning in the Confederacy / Angela Esco Elder
- Stand by your manhood : the United Confederate veterans and the rehabilitation of the Southern household / Brian Craig Miller
- Afterword : from household to personhood in America / Stephen Berry
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Description
Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household. They explore how households influenced Confederate and Union military strategy, the motivations of soldiers and civilians, and the occupation of captured cities, as well as the experiences of Native Americans, women, children, freedpeople, injured veterans, and others. The result is a unique and much needed approach to the study of the Civil War.
Household War demonstrates that the Civil War can be understood as a revolutionary moment in the transformation of the household order. The original essays by distinguished historians provide an inclusive examination of how the war flowed from, required, and resulted in the restructuring of the nineteenth-century household. Contributors explore notions of the household before, during, and after the war, unpacking subjects such as home, family, quarrels, domestic service and slavery, manhood, the Klan, prisoners and escaped prisoners, Native Americans, grief, and manhood. The essays further show how households redefined and reordered themselves as a result of the changes stemming from the Civil War.
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